How we got to now : six innovations that made the modern world / Steven Johnson

By:

Johnson, Steven, 1968- [Verfasser]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Penguin Books, c2014.Edition: 1. publDescription: 243, [16] S. IllISBN:

9781846148538
9781846148606

Uniform titles:

How we got to know

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Other classification:

QC 344
ZG 9080

Summary: Traces six essential innovations that made the modern world; from their origins in ancient history to the technological advancements of recent years. He uncovers a surprising history of pivotal scientific breakthroughs made by amateurs and entrepreneurs through the centuries: from the Parisian printer who invented the 'phonautograph' to record sound decades before Eddison, to a businessman's audacious and unannounced intervention of adding chlorine to his city's reservoirs in order to keep his contract with the water board. Each fascinating story builds the network of ideas which made subsequent discoveries possible

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	GESM Library Main Library	English Non-Fiction Adolescent-Adult	ENA/ 303 JOH	Available	E0006797

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Traces six essential innovations that made the modern world; from their origins in ancient history to the technological advancements of recent years. He uncovers a surprising history of pivotal scientific breakthroughs made by amateurs and entrepreneurs through the centuries: from the Parisian printer who invented the 'phonautograph' to record sound decades before Eddison, to a businessman's audacious and unannounced intervention of adding chlorine to his city's reservoirs in order to keep his contract with the water board. Each fascinating story builds the network of ideas which made subsequent discoveries possible

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